Workers' Party of Ethiopia

The Workers' Party of Ethiopia ( Amharic የኢትዮጵያ ሠራተኞች ፓርቲ transcribed Ye Ityopia Serategnoch Parti, english Worker's Party of Ethiopia; abbreviation WPE ) was the Marxist- Leninist Unity Party of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia, which in 1984 formed the government until 1991. From 1990, the party " Democratic Unity Party of Ethiopia " was ( EDUP ).

The headquarters of the party was in Addis Ababa, the party newspaper called Addis Zemen.

Development

In Ethiopia in 1974 occurred a revolution that brought the feudal regime of Emperor Haile Selassie to case. The army sat at the head of the revolutionary movement. A council of military personnel ( PMVR / Dergue ) took power and created the Empire of Ethiopia from. After bloody purges within the Dergue the pro-Soviet - prokubanische group sat around the Marxists -Leninists Major Mengistu Haile Mariam, which strove for the transition to socialism through.

In 1979, the Dergue founded to control the Ethiopian society better and legitimize this better be able to " Commission on the organization of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia " ( COPWE ). The COPWE acted as a party and the newspaper published Serto wire (" The Worker ").

In September 1984, was finally the founding congress of the WPE to be performed. Mengistu Haile Mariam reimbursed there a report and was elected General Secretary of the party. " While hundreds of Ethiopians starved to death, the founding ceremony devoured in the year 1984 250 million DM "

"With the 1984 saw the foundation of the ... WPE ... the Mengistu clique tried a mass base ... to create among the working people. ... " But was the WPE rather an Army as a workers' party: " 75 percent of this party are soldiers and civilian bureaucrats. In Central Committee sitting 24 generals and 46 Supreme. "

In 1987, a new Ethiopian constitution came into force, the Constitution of the People's Democratic Republic of Ethiopia. In it, the leadership of WPE in the political system of the country was committed.

In March 1990, the WPE was renamed " Democratic Unity Party of Ethiopia " ( EDUP ). Previously, Mengistu Haile Mariam had declared in a four-hour speech to the Central Committee of the WPE the transition to socialism failed. The party was now " open to all social forces. " By May 1991, the EDUP was the only legal party.

Relations with the SED

"Comrade Honecker noticed ... that the support ... Ethiopia is the line of the SED. " Relations between the Ethiopian party and the Socialist Unity Party of Germany (SED ), but also the personal relationship between the Secretaries-General Erich Honecker and Mengistu Haile Mariam were friendly. Yet in May 1989 Mengistu Haile Mariam visited the GDR.

Delegation at party

Since 1981, the Ethiopian party delegations sent to party days of the SED. Previously, the Dergue in 1976, a delegation of the IX had. SED posted. The information on the composition of the delegations are taken from the party protocols.

  • Berhanu Bayeh ( Member of the Executive Committee )
  • Berhanu Jembere (Ambassador of Socialist Ethiopia in the GDR )
  • Tefera shawl (Deputy chief editor of the party organ " Serto vein" )
  • Tafessework Wondimu ( Sector Head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee )
  • Assefa Habtu ( employees of the Central Committee )
  • Mengistu Haile Mariam
  • Addis Tedla ( Member of the Politburo of the Central Committee and Deputy Chairman of the National Committee for Central Planning )
  • Dr. Ashagre Yigletu (Secretary of the Central Committee and head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee )
  • Mengistu Gemetchu (member of the Central Committee and head of the Office of the Secretary )
  • Girma Beshah (Candidate of the Central Committee and Deputy Head of the Department of International Relations of the Central Committee )
  • Berhanu Jembere ( Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary of the Socialist Ethiopia in the GDR )

Party documents

In the minutes of the X. and XI. Party Congress of the SED Greetings from the Ethiopian party included in this party days.

In 1986 also appeared in Dietz Verlag Berlin brochure founding congress of the Workers' Party of Ethiopia, 6th - September 10, 1984 main report, reimbursed by Mengistu Haile Mariam, Chairman of the PMVR and COPWE, supreme commander of the Revolutionary Armed Forces. .

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